About 4 years ago I bought an 18000 mile Transalp 600 with the aim of sprucing it up and taking the adventure I have always said I would do, which for me was to ride from UK to Italy, possibly get the ferry across to Corfu and back possibly dipping into Spain as well on the return, who knows but generally heading south into Europe.  I bought the TA as it was all I could afford at the time and seemed to have reports of being bullet proof.  At 5’7” it’s about as tall a bike as I want.  After life’s normal twists and turns which scuppered my plans completely, I am finally in a position to embark on this adventure, the TA has had all its bits changed and is back on the road once more still with only 18000 on the clock and looking pretty....but now I’m here and having read ABR recently I am starting to doubt the whole thing....is the bike good enough....am I mad to want to do this alone on a 1997 bike? Should I get better bike? What if what if what if????I read all the articles and travel stories of people touring on nice big BMW’s with all the whistles and bells but you never hear any tales of travel on a humble 600 TA. Now I’m here at the point where I can finally fulfil that dream.....sadly I am also on the verge of bottling it!!